Hi there,
Really enjoy your blog, and love seeing what you are wearing, and what you will choose to add to your wardrobe next.
I’m wondering, have you heard of Marie Kondo, the tidying expert from Japan? I read her book this weekend, and got all excited and “Kondoed” my drawers this weekend. She believes that clothes should be folded, including sweaters. My clothes take up so much less space now, I have two drawers left over! And I can see all my clothes, when I open the drawers. Easier to get dressed in the morning!
Has anyone else done this?

I love this idea. I wish I could do it in my closet. I have A LOT of sweaters, collected over the years, and I like them all. Several had been attacked by moths the last couple years (I live near the beach) so I started storing them in separate plastic zip locks with cloves, which seems to be working. But it’s worky when I want to try a couple different sweaters with an outfit, and have to take out and put them back in the bags. I would love to figure out how to make my closet space function more efficiently. I share a sliding door bedroom closet with my husband. I have a couple feet of hanging space for jackets above a deeper space for knee length dresses. To the right of that a couple more feet of hanging space for pants folded on hangers and shirts and a few heavier sweaters hung like you have. Below this is a shelf with sweaters in bags, above built in drawers with tshirts, sweaters in bags, lingerie, seasonal items. Then on my husband’s side I have taken a low hanging space for seldom worn things I could probably get rid of. We share a large dresser where I have koni-mari folded jeans in one drawer, casual tshirts, sweats, fleecies in another. A hall closet holds dressy as well as seasonal (wools in summer and sundresses in winter, though living in l.a. this is not dramatic) and all my shoes. I would love to figure out some way to not be “all over the place,” without getting rid of things I like to wear, so I can have more fun with my wardrobe.

That is genius, Sue. I like to hang sweaters that are in my current “rotation”… sounds like I have scads of clothes, but I don’t, only a very small closet. If I put them in drawers, they often have to be ironed before wearing. But they can stretch if hung on a hanger the normal way. This is my solution! Thanks.

Hi Mary, I personally don’t own any cowlneck sweaters. But I suppose you could unroll the neck out flat and fold it against the body of the sweater before folding the sweater in half lengthwise. That would work for turtlenecks too.